Re: unknown option "MAXUSERS"
On 02/17, Dmitry M. rearranged the electrons to read: > -bash-2.05b# config MYKERNEL > MYKERNEL: unknown option "MAXUSERS" It's probably because "maxusers" is a lowercase-only option in the config, right along with the ident, machine, and cpu lines. Change it to lowercase and you should be fine. Also, from the handbook: Note: As of FreeBSD 4.5, setting MAXUSERS to 0 in your kernel configuration file will choose a reasonable default value based on the amount of RAM present in your system. In 5.x and beyond, I believe the option is omitted entirely, even in GENERIC. Hope that helps. -Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: can't reboot after messing up my rc.conf file
I may have missed something from the thread before I joined the list, but is there any reason you can't just mount the filesystems and use vi as you're used to? If you're getting far enough in the boot process to get an opportunity to interact with a shell, you should just be able to mount -a and vi whatever. (Or, if you want to play it safe (or if the system wasn't cleanly shutdown before), fsck and then mount -a) Otherwise, Chris Hodgins' suggestion of mv'ing the old file out of the way and echoing variables into a new one is probably what I'd do. I hate ed. On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 13:42, aklist_061666 wrote: > Hi All: > > I was editing my rc.conf file and left off a quote mark, and now when > I try to reboot I get an error and am prompted to drop into shell to > fix it. > > The default prompt is /bin/sh, and if I hit return I get a prompt. > > How can I edit the file while I'm in that prompt? VI doesn't work...is > there another text editor I can use to fix the file? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
multi-version jumpstart
I currently have a jumpstart server setup in such a way that we can specify on a "configure" command-line various install options (which 4.x-RELEASE we want to use, server config type, etc.). This part is working great and has saved us a ton of time. Now that 5.x is moving into the realm of being stable enough for our production uses, we're looking into making use of some of the SMP-related goodies in that release line. Unfortunately, I do not seem to be able to get our jumpstart server to be able to dynamically install both 4.x and 5.x targets from the same machine. I'm able to get the jumpstart server to export the 5.3-RELEASE partition and pass the GENERIC kernel and install.cfg over to the network-booting machine, but when it comes time to actually NFS mount the install partition on the target server to run the install, it returns an NFS error: mount_nfs -P 10.x.x.x:/releases/5.3-RELEASE/ /dist mount_nfs: Can't update /var/db/mounttab for 10.x.x.x:/releases/5.3-RELEASE mount_nfs: /dist: operation not supported by device I'm assuming the problem is related to the fact that the jumpstart server is running 4.x-RELEASE, while the OS I'm trying to install on the target server (and the kernel that's attempting to NFS mount the partition) is from the 5.x line and they're fighting over mounttab magic. Does anybody know if this kind of thing is possible? If so, what did you do to enable such a configuration to work? (Would it be possible to install both 4.x and 5.x on network-booting clients if the jumpstart server was 5.x instead of 4.x as it is now?) I'd really like to avoid having to build a second jumpstart server just to get 5.x installs working, but I'm afraid it's looking like that's the way I'll need to go... Any tips would be most appreciated. -Jamie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: em0 Intel Gigabit card, rc.conf processing on boot
On 06/28, Michael Clark rearranged the electrons to read: > Any suggestions on how to do this without DHCP? That's really not > an option for me. Can I delay the rc.conf processing somehow > so that the adaptor has more time to get online? You could always put a sleep statement in the relevant /etc/rc* script. On some of our servers, we added the following two lines to the base /etc/rc script in the NFS Mounts section, because it would process too quickly and try to mount (and fail) before the interface came up: echo 'Waiting 5 seconds for interface to settle...' sleep 5 In our case, it was the ti0 interface, but the concept's the same. Hope that gives you something to start with, at any rate. -Jamie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
On 06/17, Matthew Seaman rearranged the electrons to read: > > Try starting it as root then as a regular user. It's weird. I had that > > but after long enough I got a message about too mamy open files. > > I found that running as root via sudo meant that firefox created a > root-owned ~/.mozilla/firefox directory -- so as soon as I tried to > run it under my own UID, that lead to being constantly asked to create > a new profile, failing to do that and then crashing as observed. Interesting. The 15:29 checkin by marcus said "The warning about running as root first is no longer needed since the hack seems to work", so I didn't try it again. He was, apparently, wrong. Now, when I start it via sudo (rather than a "su -" and an exporting of the display), it starts up just fine. After a "chown -R" of the .mozilla directory to me, it starts fine as my userid, too. Weirdness. Thanks, everybody, for the replies! I really appreciate it. - Jamie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Firefox 0.9 Port
On 06/17, Richard Tobin rearranged the electrons to read: > You have to run it as root first. Actually, according to the last checkin, that's no longer true. I did try that, though, to no avail. I'll try it again just to be sure. -Jamie ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Firefox 0.9 Port
I'm not really sure where to ask this, so I'm defaulting to the questions list. I recently reinstalled my machine and am running 5.2.1-RELEASE. Now that Firefox 0.9 has been released, I decided to try installing it. (Note: Since this is a freshly reinstalled workstation, no previous versions of Mozilla or Firefox were lying around. I also deleted the .mozilla and .phoenix directories from my homedir backup before running this new version.) The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: *** loading the extensions datasource The browser never actually starts and that message keeps repeating until I ^C out of it. Has anybody else encountered this since the new port came out? Previous versions of Firefox on my old workstation (also of the 5.x line) worked fine. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
